Helping clients with plain language policy writing

The firm’s client occupies a specialized market in property and liability insurance in Alberta. The client was in the process developing a new wording for its property and business interruption insurance. The client came to Michael for legal support because of his familiarity with the client’s existing policy wording, experience in providing coverage analysis involving that wording and familiarity with the client’s specialized market.

The client’s objective was a clear, rational and intuitive policy wording. Michael worked with the client’s primary drafter to develop a new policy wording that addressed the client’s insuring objectives in clear and accessible language and met the requirements of Alberta insurance law.

The client remarks: "I am pleased with Michael’s consultative approach to our project. We were able to address policy wording challenges in an effective manner because of the open dialogue followed by his research and presentation of realistic and actionable options to each issue I raised."